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Desktop icons is blinking - like a refresh?

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we are having a really annoying problem, our users are experiencing that the icons on their desktop are blinking quite often, like when you hit F5 for a refresh.

Our setup is two Windows Server 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Servers, with folder redirection enabled on Desktop, Documents and Favorites. The setup is also using roaming profiles.

I have tried using Process Monitor to try and capture what is going on, and it looks like it's updating/touching ALL files on the desktop every time something happens on the desktop. It does the following to ALL files on the desktop, also the files located in C:\User\Public\Desktop, including the desktop.ini file in all folders where this file is contained:

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